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Please ascertain and report what steps have been taken in your district by the State and Municipal authorities, to provide for the absolutely indigent and suffering refugees and freedmen that have been and are being thrown upon the General Government for support. Continue to use every possible effort to find good homes for orphan minors who are dependent, and to reduce by means of employment offices, any accumulations of people in the different cities and villages; aiding the unemployed to find homes and places of labor. You have succeeded in allaying strife, settling labor, and promoting education in the midst of great difficulties. Continue with your utmost energy and ability to pursue the same course, so as to demonstrate to the people of your district the good intentions of the Government, and the complete predictability of the system of free labor.
Give a thorough inspection  of every agent